I sometimes wonder if our western societies haven't gone a little bit too far in promoting the rights of the individual in the face of the needs of society as a whole. Of course, when you hear about the tens

I have written in the past about passive infrastructure remedies to competition. Portugal is one country where such remedies seem to have had positive effects on the market. Applying similar remedies in the UK was a big part of the

I will be chairing a session at the ECTA Regulatory Conference 2010 next week in Brussels. The conference is two days, Nov. 30th and Dec. 1st but I will only be there on the second day. Still, the agenda for

In an era where the buzzwords about broadband and the internet seem to be caps and hogs, it's reassuring and exciting to see someone trying to buck the trend and offer what customers want as opposed to what he thinks

The FTTH Council APAC Anuual Conference in Seoul last week was the second of three such conferences worldwide (the third will be in Las Vegas in September) and as such a second round of numbers was released. I won't dwell

Now you might say that I've picked this title driven by pure chauvinism, but I assure you, it's nothing of the sort. I just think that – once in a while – when your country adopts a sensible and measurably

Today is Nov. 11th, the day France celebrates the WWI armistice. As a consequence, I'm not working and don't intend to blog extensively, but luckily my good friend and sharp-witted brainiac Rudolf is doing that for me. Rudolf is attending

Commenting on my post last week about the Keymile PON vs EP2P white paper, Frank raises a very good point about who I was talking about when I used the term Option Value. It's a really insightful comment and